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Quintero climate by month
What the weather is like
Quintero has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 20° and nights 15°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 6°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 508 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (123 mm, 6 wet days) and December the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 9% in January to 39% in June.
The sea reaches about 17° in February. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Santiago, the capital, Quintero is 8.6° cooler on a February afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 20° · February
- Coldest nights
- 9° · July
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- January · 9% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 17° · February
- Longest day
- 14 h 18 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 00 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 20° | 20° | 20° | 18° | 16° | 15° | 14° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 18° | 19° |
| Average low | 15° | 15° | 15° | 13° | 12° | 10° | 9° | 9° | 10° | 11° | 13° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 1 mm | 1 mm | 6 mm | 17 mm | 106 mm | 123 mm | 126 mm | 78 mm | 31 mm | 12 mm | 6 mm | 1 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.8 | 0.7 | 1 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 5.5 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.2 |
| Cloud cover | 9% | 10% | 13% | 20% | 36% | 39% | 34% | 32% | 31% | 23% | 15% | 11% |
| Sea temperature | 17° | 17° | 17° | 15° | 14° | 14° | 13° | 13° | 13° | 13° | 14° | 16° |
| Daylight | 14h 04 | 13h 15 | 12h 19 | 11h 17 | 10h 27 | 10h 00 | 10h 11 | 10h 54 | 11h 52 | 12h 52 | 13h 48 | 14h 18 |
| Month score | 96 | 98 | 98 | 97 | 83 | 68 | 73 | 74 | 80 | 89 | 94 | 100 |